Photographic-film roll.



' T. M. K. OVERLAND.

PHOTOGRAPHIG FILM ROLL. APPLICATION FILED SBPT.4,1908.

UNITED STATES. rATENT OFFICE] THOMAS M. K. OVERLAND, OF RIVER FOREST, ILII JINOIS, ASSIGNOR '10 EASTMAN KODAK 00., or nocnns'ran, NEW Yonx, A conronn'rron or new Yonx, 1, rnoroenmlc-rrmi ROLL. I

937,262, I Specification of letters Patent. Patented t- 1 9, 1909.

Application filed September 4,. 1908. Serial in. 451,734.

To all whom it may co'rw ermi- Y Be it known that I, THOMAS M. K. om-

LAND, a citizen of "Norwayf and residing at River Forest, in the county of Cook and specification.

asa fastening device for State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Photographic- Film Rolls; and, I do hereby declare the following to be a-full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of the specification.

My invention relates to means for manipulating and securing rolls of flexible material particularly photographic film and particularly the so-called dayli ht loading cartridges for cameras, em ying a strip of opaque flexible material as paper and a shorter strip of sensitized photographic film adapted to be wound therewith upon a spool or center, and it has for its object to provide means which not onl'y facilitates the removal of an exposed roll orfilm from the camera or roll holder but Which also serves preventing the film or flexible material from unrolling. I The invention consists generally in the employment upon the outer co volution of a wound strip of flexible materi 1, such as the paper of a film cartridge, of a flexible flap or extension which overlaps the free end and not only serves as a manipulating handle to.

assist, m'connection with the free-end of the paper, in removing the roll from a recess or holder but-also as a securing means for said free end. This arrangement of parts is capable of use with other wound flexible stri s but is especially adapted for photograph c film To these and other'ends the invention con sists in certain improvements and combinations of parts all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed out in the claims at the end of, the

In the drawings: Fi strips constituting a through a portion of a camera showing the manner of removing a cartridge or roll.

Fig. 3 is a view of a filmcartridge after re figures indicate similar parts.

' The well known film cartridges consistI genre is a view of the m cartridge embody-' mg my invention. Fig. 2- is a Sectional v1ewof sensitized ,photoerally. strip of black" paper indicated by I by 2, shorter than the gable flexible strip or connection, when the 'fi'hn isv adapted for development in a developing machine (as in Patent'No. 883,819) Upon the outer side of the rear or freeend of'the black paper, or that opposite the point is arranged a of attachment 3 of the film, short,'flap at preferably of paper which in the preferred form is formed of a strip of paper adhering at one end to the paper 1 while the inner side of-itdfiree end is pro- This flap is located in such position relative to the rear free end ofthe black paper that it will overlap the latter when the cartridge is wound on its spool after e posure andby first moistening the gum an pressing it on said end it is used to secure itand prevent the film from unwin ing. e

' In use in the camera or roll holder'the paper and film is wound on a spool or vided with/dried gum as indicated. at 5.-

splndle with the end at which the connection 3 is made, outside and when the film is exposed in the usual way and wound on the reel or s ool 6, the rear end of the paper 1 and the fir in the position shown in Fi 2 so that the ee end of the flap 4 are presented operator may, by grasping t ese ends, read- 11y remove the spool and film, first detach- I ing the film-centering devices in the camera. After removal the exposed cartridge may be secured, for handling, by moistening the m on the free end of t e flap and securing it to the end of the black paper. Instead of making the flap 1n the form of a separate sticker a plied as shown, it is obvious that it could paper and have the dried ltS' outer side, as shown in ig. 4.

The paper and film are generally wound .giipon a spool suchas 6, but this 1s not absojlutely essential. i a 1 f course, thisliftin' and securingarrangement could be used on strips for other purposes than film rolls.

I claim as my invention 1. I "1. The combination with astrip of flexi-J ble material adapted to be wound into a roll, of a liftin flap on the outer side near the ,free end t. ereof but removed vfrom the ex- 2 0- when the roll is formed and dry adhesive material applied to the saidfree' end of the thereon, t

tremity ofithelatter, one end of said flap being free and the other being connected 'roll, of a flap on the outer side near the free extremity thereof but removed from the extremity of the latter, one end of said flap being connected with the,strip and the other being 'freeand arranged to overlap said end and to be secured thereto when the roll is formed. a

material adapted to be wound into a roll, of a fla on the outer side of. said strip near the f i'ee endthereof but removed from the extremity of the latter, one end of said flap being-connected with the strip and the other being free and arranged to overlap said end 4s A photographic cartridge embodying a strip of opaque flexible -material and a shorter strip of .flexible photographic film secured'thereto the whole adapted to. be

wound into a roll with the opaque strip out- 'side and a flap on the outer side of the opaque strip near its freefend but removed from the extremity thereof, one end of said flap being connected with the strip and the otherbeinlg1 free and having a dried adhesive e free end of said flap and theouter end of the strip serving as a means i for lifting the roll and the free endof the flap'when secured to the outer end of. said str1p serving as a mean's for fastening the latter.

strip 'of opaque material, a shorter strip of flexible sensitized photographic film secured thereto, the whole adapted to be wound into aroll with-the opaque strip on the outside, a flap on the opaque strip near 5. A film cartridge embodying a flexiblethe outer end-thereof, but removed from the extremity of the latter, one end of said flap being connected to the strip and the opposite free end extending. rearward of the said outer end of the strip and adapted to'overq a lap the latter when formed into a roll, v 3. The combination with a photographic film cartridge embodying a strip of flexible said flap having dried adhesive on its inner surface.

6. As anarticle of manufacture, a photographic cartridge embodying a spool or .nected at one end to the interior'end of the opaque strip which is on the inside of the roll at-a pomt removed from the extremity thereof distance approximating the circumference of the roll'and having a free end extending rearwardly' from the latter, whereby the free end of the flap and the interior end of theiopaque strip are brought into -adjacent exterior positions when the strips are rewound into a similar roll where they can be utilized in lifting the latter, said members being adapted to over-lap and one being provided with. a dry adhesive for securing it to the other.

THOMAS Ml K. OVERLAND. Witnesses:

O. TINSLAND,

SARA HEGLAND. 

